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McLean, Va., and Bedford, Mass., December 14, 2023 – To additional help entry to international well being providers, the Swinfen Charitable Belief, UVA Well being, Telemedicine AI, and MITRE introduced a brand new collaboration to allow medical cyber infrastructure safety assessments and testing for Swinfen’s next-generation telemedicine platform, OpenTelemed. This collaboration additionally will incorporate academic sources and cyber know-how coaching for the Belief’s intensive community of well being professionals throughout 427 hospitals and clinics in 96 nations.
In its long-standing mission to construct the world’s free medical lifeline, the Swinfen Charitable Belief and its volunteer consultants present telemedicine providers to resource-scarce and susceptible sufferers in underserved nations by connections with their suppliers, who themselves study from among the most interesting medical specialists on the earth.
“Our mission is an easy one in principle,” mentioned Katherine Davies, trustee, Swinfen Charitable Belief. “We provide a digital hospital that by no means runs out of beds, has no political grasp, and welcomes each affected person, freed from cost. Via this collaboration and by increasing the attain of our care community, we hope to harness the technological functionality to assist stop hurt and supply care. We use telemedicine to shut distances and create hope by medical care and schooling.”
“Simple and safe entry to medical care is important, and with this collaboration, we’re enabling extra medical doctors to attach with one another throughout the globe to allow them to safely deliver their sufferers the very best medical care wherever they’re,” mentioned Charles Clancy, senior vice chairman, basic supervisor, MITRE Labs, and chief know-how officer, MITRE. “Swinfen has spent a long time constructing a trusted community for medical doctors, particularly in distant and rural areas, and we’re honored to be part of the answer to maintain that community safe.”
“We’re delighted to broaden our long-standing collaborations with Swinfen Telemedicine by its partnership with MITRE and Telemedicine AI,” mentioned Dr. Karen Rheuban, director, UVA Middle for Telehealth. “This collaboration will protect the legacy of the late Lord Roger and Woman Patricia Swinfen to supply humanitarian entry to care by way of telemedicine and broaden the data and capability of suppliers in underserved nations and battle zones.”
“We stay up for increasing our nonprofit telemedicine platform and know-how choices in partnership with MITRE’s experience, and to deploy it for higher affect and scale with UVA and Swinfen Telemedicine,” mentioned Sankalpa Ghose, founder, Telemedicine AI. “We hope the following era of our platform makes it even simpler and extra sturdy to facilitate medical data change and knowledgeable look after these most in want worldwide.”
Organizations that want to get entangled within the collaboration or Swinfen Charitable Belief ought to contact [email protected]. To study extra about MITRE’s work in securing vital infrastructure, go to mitre.org/cipic.
About MITRE
MITRE’s mission-driven groups are devoted to fixing issues for a safer world. Via our public-private partnerships and federally funded R&D facilities, we work throughout authorities and in partnership with business to sort out challenges to the security, stability, and well-being of our nation. Be taught extra at https://www.mitre.org/.
About Swinfen Charitable Belief
Swinfen Telemedicine has labored for greater than twenty years to supply lifesaving data by international telemedicine. We’re the longest-running nonprofit telemedicine community on the earth and have related well being professionals throughout greater than 400 clinics in 96 nations. Our providers are solely free and supported by beneficiant donors. Our platform and community allow individuals to unfold medical data and assist their communities. Be taught extra at swinfentelemed.org
About UVA Well being
UVA Well being is an educational well being system that not too long ago expanded to incorporate 4 hospitals throughout Charlottesville, Culpeper, and Northern Virginia, together with the UVA College of Drugs, UVA College of Nursing, UVA Physicians Group, and the Claude Moore Well being Sciences Library. With greater than 1,000 inpatient beds, roughly 40,000 inpatient stays yearly, and greater than 1 million outpatient encounters yearly at UVA Well being, greater than 1,000 employed and impartial physicians present high-quality, complete, and specialised care to sufferers throughout the Commonwealth and past. Based in 1819 as simply the tenth medical college in America, the UVA College of Drugs—with 20 scientific departments, eight primary science departments, and 6 analysis facilities—constantly attracts among the nation’s most distinguished researchers to develop breakthrough therapies to learn sufferers world wide. These analysis efforts are backed by greater than $200 million in grant funding. UVA Well being Kids’s is acknowledged because the No. 1 hospital in Virginia for kids by U.S. Information & World Report, with 9 specialties rated among the many prime in America. Greater than 230 UVA physicians are honored on the Finest Medical doctors in America checklist. For extra data and sources, and to comply with on social media, go to uvahealth.com.
About Telemedicine AI
Telemedicine AI is a well being know-how agency specializing in international well being platforms. With greater than a decade of expertise in tasks world wide, together with among the first efforts to deploy telemedicine on cellular gadgets and thru the cloud, our engineering practices steadiness cutting-edge know-how with real-world necessities. In partnership with Swinfen Telemedicine and others, we’re constructing the next-generation platform for international telemedicine. Be taught extra at telemedicine.ai.
